The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Everton 3

After 50 years of support of this loveable but eccentric football club you might have thought they could no longer surprise me.

So when last week I reported on the worst penalty I had ever seen missed you might have thought that this week I would be not reporting now on a more abject effort.

I don’t know if Ivan Cavaleiro thought he was retaking the knee but he managed in the same movement to fall backwards, kick his standing foot and sky his penalty over the bar.

This is our third consecutive miss costing us 4 points.

In the first half the BBC commentator and analysts had a field day criticising the Fulham defence.

We were subject to a relentless bombardment.  I was reminded of David Coleman’s phrase:

“Their defence is like trying to cover a colander with a postage stamp“.

Everton looked like scoring from every cross and were deservedly leading 3-1 at half time.

The introduction of Ruben Loftus Cheek who pegged one goal back and Anguissa gave us more dynamism and but for the penalty we would have finished with a draw.

Although some supporters have already written us off, we are not actually in the bottom three and those of us will longer memories will recall many a relegation battle which Fulham survived in a worse situation than this.